Aces at Bears (Sunday, Jan 15th)

[Kyle]

Wow, the MVC parity is on full display tonight. Congrats to EU. Marty is really turning that program around.

[CaseyGarrisonforPrez]

Congratulations Evansville. Unlike several Valley schools I have always thought highly of Aces fans. Happy for Colt because he gets ridden hard for "garbage points" which is a load of baloney.

Not a whole lot to say because I think it is time for a lot of Bears fans to go into hibernation and either come out in St Louis or next November. I honestly don't know what we are playing for this next month. Probably it is time to focus more on women's basketball although right now that stings too.

This Bears team would be in terrific shape for an at large if we could go forward in time to season Coach Lusk with 3-4 years of head job experience and then transport him back to 2012. Probably wouldn't have lost to WV, Ok State, Illinois State, UNI, or Evansville.

Time to try to sweep Creighton which would be extra sweet with a lot of Dingman family and friends there. At least the thought of that can bring a smile to my face after two ugly deflating loses.

[sixth ace]

Finally a win in a close game
WAY TO GO ACES



FYI On Friday 13 a virus I download from firstrow website that destroyed my hard drive. I have watch several games on that site w/o problem but i had watch them on IE . It suggested that I run Firefox. I tried that and it said I need to dwnld a updated video file. Be Careful. The file had the virus I fought it for about a week and on the 13th I saw it had capture more viruses. I run Microsoft Essental virus controls . Or I did. I finally reformatted my harddrive and was able to reload my system. Just be careful what you download on that site...I wouldn't load a file from there i'd miss the game.

[Ace Dad]

http://www.missouristatebears.com/allac ... dia=292891

Coach Lusk's post game interview.

[Aargh]

Colt's scoring as "garbage points" has become an MVCFans cliche. It no longer means none of his points matter. The phrase caught hold last year when Ryan had a tendency to score lots of points after the game was decided.

WSUballer (ShockerFever on ShockerNet) referred to Colt's FT's that won the game as "garbage points". I think baller is the person who started the "garbage points" concept. Now he refers to Ryan's game-winning scores as "garbage points". That is so obviously wrong that baller is now using the term to make a joke of the cliche.

You'd think people would figure out the joke when many of Ryan's game-altering scores this year have been referred to as "garbage points". This year, the reference to Ryan's scores as "garbage points" is a joke on the cliche.

Get a sense of humor and learn how to deal with message board jargon and the intended humor worked off of that jargon.

[MoValley John]

Actually, the whole garbage points deal was started by an Aces fan on VT. I can't remember the posters screen name but he used to mention that not even Colt's mamma was impressed with his game. It really was funny but there had also been some critical discussion of it as well. Colt has scored points in garbage time but I think it has more to do with him not quitting. The old jokes are still funny, I just don't think everyone gets it.

[glm38]

I think it's pretty easy to distinguish which of the Colt Ryan/garbage points comments are meant in jest and which ones are not. And almost all of them were meant in fun. That's obvious even to those of us that haven't been on here very long.

But if you think Baller's past comments about Ryan were meant all in fun or as a cliche - I suggest you go back and look at them. They were clearly not. And I didn't blame UE fans for being upset at all.

I think most on here have a pretty good sense of humor but sometimes people go a little too far.

[Bluejay09Bear06]

We still get no respect.[/b]

No, you don't. When you drag 200+ RPI homecourt losses into conference play and do everything in your power to make this league look like a small-time conference that will be lucky to get two bids, you don't get respect. I'm sick and tired of teams playing like absolute trash in the nonconference and then finally getting up for games during conference play. High school teams do that, NOT D-1 teams.

Evansville deserved to win yesterday. They were bad, but Bears were worse. What's your complaint?

From the BearNation message board:[/b]

Seriously? Copy-and-pasting messages from the Bears board after the worst homecourt loss Springfield has seen since Middle Tennessee State in 2008? That is trashy and classless. I would never post on an opponent's message board after one of my teams won. Actually, I just never post on opposing message boards, period. All I ever see you do is whine about respect and provoke people on their message boards, then cry and tattle on this board when someone lashes out at you. Pathetic.

[havoc]

No, you don't. When you drag 200+ RPI homecourt losses into conference play and do everything in your power to make this league look like a small-time conference that will be lucky to get two bids, you don't get respect.

While the Tennessee Tech home loss was totally inexcusable, they are no longer a 200+ RPI team.

I'm sick and tired of teams playing like absolute trash in the nonconference and then finally getting up for games during conference play. High school teams do that, NOT D-1 teams.

I'm 100% certain that before the season started, Marty Simmons told his team that they were going to purposely play poorly in the non-conference season so that come January, they could ruin MSU already dim chances of an at-large bid.

[Bluejay09Bear06]

I'm 100% certain that before the season started, Marty Simmons told his team that they were going to purposely play poorly in the non-conference season so that come January, they could ruin MSU already dim chances of an at-large bid.

First of all, MSU blew its already-slim chance at an at-large with the Illinois State loss. That ship has sailed. I'm talking about the conference as a whole. Second of all, I didn't accuse Simmons of purposefully coaching terrible losses in the nonconference - but they managed to do it anyway.